Pusser had met and approved actor Bo Svenson playing him for the sequel.
Pusser had met and approved actor Bo Svenson playing him for the sequel.
Pusser died on August 21, 1974, of injuries sustained in a one-car automobile accident four miles west of Adamsville.[15] Earlier that day, he had contracted with Bing Crosby Productions in Memphis to portray himself in the sequel to Walking Tall. That evening, returning home alone from the McNairy County Fair in his specially modified Corvette, Pusser struck an embankment at high speed that ejected him from the vehicle. The car caught fire and burned.[15]
According to this, he was going to portray himself.